ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times

DATE: Friday, March 28, 1997                 TAG: 9703280039
SECTION: CURRENT                  PAGE: NRV-3 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

LENGTH: Short :   27 lines
ILLUSTRATION: PHOTO:  1. "TROPISM" is the title of this work (above) in oil 
          and collage by 2. Blacksburg artist Suzi Gablik (left). The piece is
          part of an exhibit, "A Mini Retrospective of Collage Paintings," 
          showing now at Miller-Off-Main Street Gallery. Gablik, an art 
          critic, writer and lecturer, was an exhibiting artist in the 1960s 
          and '70s. Born in New York and widely known in the city's art 
          circles, Gablik moved to Blacksburg's Mossy Spring subdivision in 
          1991 where she continued her work as an activist for ecology. Her 
          passion, she says, is the earth and what is happening to it. A 
          reporter once asked Gablik why she decided to move to this area. 
          "Most of all," she said, "what I was hankering for was to wake up in
          the morning and be ravished by beauty."  Gablik's art remains at 
          Miller-Off-Main Street Gallery through April 12. The gallery at 211 
          Wilson Ave. in Blacksburg is open Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m.-5 
          p.m., and Saturday, noon-5 p.m. color.